Professional Gymnast in the Making

When Davis was born, Jonathan and I registered Edison in a couple of Parent & Tot classes. Edison is going to be 3 in a couple of months and at the perfect age to start participating in some classes. We also thought it would be a good idea for him to have a couple of things that are just about him. Davis stays home and we are able to have some quality time with Edison.

On Tuesdays Edison does gymnastics, which he loves because he is a natural-born monkey... usually gymnastics is a Daddy and Edison thing. On Wednesdays, I take Edison to a "Clay Play" class which is kind of like a pottery class for toddlers (pictures to come soon).

Today was the half-way point in his gymnastics class so parents were encouraged to participate... which is right up Jonathan's alley seeing as how Edison inherited his monkey skills from his father. The other parent was also allowed to come in today to watch... which was also great because it gave me the chance to take a few pictures of the monkeys in action.

Bouncing down the tumble track 

Practicing his log roll 

Somersaults!  

Just hanging around 

Trapeze into the foam pit!

The boys... watching the other kids 

Jumping around

Doing the "bear walk" across the parrellel bars 

Practicing on the highest balance beam

Edison loves every minute of his gymnastics class (or "na-a-tics" as he calls it) and he's quite good at it. His class goes until the middle of June and then it will stop for the summer. We are hoping that in the fall he will be ready for the next level up, which means he will be all on his own... no more parent and tot... poor Jonathan will have to join an adult class or something.